Baseball coach Tom Walter and player Kevin Jordan are both recovering well after kidney transplant surgery on Monday. Both expect to be released from the hospital this week and have been showered with support from the Wake Forest community.
Categories: Athletics, Experiential Learning, Pro Humanitate
In October of 1962, more than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200. Listen to the audio recording and read the transcript of King’s speech.
Categories: Happening at Wake
Students in Michele Gillespie’s history class are studying the history of work in America by starting with those who make Wake Forest work: staff and faculty. As part of an oral-history project, Wake at Work, students are interviewing about 20 staff members and several professors.
Baseball coach Tom Walter donated a kidney to one of his players, Kevin Jordan, on Monday. Jordan began to feel ill in January 2010 as a freshman, and he was diagnosed with ANCA vasculitis, requiring dialysis for about 10 hours a day. When Jordan’s family did not produce an ideal donor match, Walter volunteered.
Categories: Athletics
A team of four Schools of Business students took first place in the national round of the KPMG International Case Competition on Feb. 4 in New York, earning the honor to represent the United States in a global competition April 6-8 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Categories: Experiential Learning, University Announcements